{"id":6506,"date":"2013-09-25T10:09:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T09:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=6506"},"modified":"2013-09-25T10:13:30","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T09:13:30","slug":"2013sep25islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/2013sep25islam\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarter of young don’t trust Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NewsbeatMuslims\"<\/a>Over a quarter of young British people do not trust Muslims, according to a poll carried out for BBC’s Newsbeat<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Of the 1,000 young people questioned, 28% said Britain would be better off with fewer Muslims, while 44% said Muslims did not share the same values as the rest of the population.<\/p>\n

Some 60% thought the British public had a negative image of Muslims.<\/p>\n

Other findings in the Comres survey, conducted in June, include:<\/p>\n

* Only three in 10 (29%) think Muslims are doing enough to combat extremism in their communities. Even though 48% of young people agree\u00a0that Islam is a peaceful religion, more than a quarter\u00a0(27%) disagree.<\/p>\n

* Young people place the blame for Islamophobia in Britain on terror groups abroad (26%), the media (23%) and UK Muslims who have committed acts of terror (21%).<\/p>\n

* Young people are divided over whether or not immigration is good for Britain overall. Two-fifths (42%) say it is a good thing but more than a third disagree (35%)<\/p>\n

An adviser on anti-Muslim hatred said the findings suggested young people needed to mix more.<\/p>\n

Akeela Ahmed, a Muslim from a cross-government ‘working group on anti-Muslim hatred’, said: “These findings indicate that we need to ensure young people are mixing at local levels and that they’re working on projects together so that people can get to know Muslims and vice versa.”<\/p>\n

Evidence shows, however, that it is Muslims who do not want to mix. \u00a0They have formed enclaves in places like Oldham, Bradford, Cardiff, Oxford and Tower Hamlets where non-believers, known as ‘kaffir’, are despised and unwelcome.<\/p>\n

A second problem with young people mixing with Muslims is that they could quickly encounter the Muslim practice of ‘taqiyya’ and have their preconceptions hardened.<\/p>\n

In brief, ‘taqiyya’ is a culture of lying to protect Islam stemming from advice given by Mohammed himself. \u00a0It spills over into every normal social encounter with the result that virtually any comment from a Muslim needs to be soundly corroborated before being believed.<\/p>\n

Transplanting such a culture into a country whose Christian heritage assumes the truth will always be told and recognises no such loop-hole as ‘Taqiyya’ was always going to be fraught with difficulty.<\/p>\n

A third problem is the aggressive manner in which Muslims in Britain practise their religion, with the full face-veil becoming a totem issue.<\/p>\n

Anisha Patel, a practising Muslim, wears a black full-face veil and according to her comments in the Newsbeat story, claims to have been attacked by two men who pulled off her daughter’s veil.<\/p>\n

“The kind of comments, the kind of looks and stares that we’re experiencing at this moment in time is very different to what it was before,” she said.<\/p>\n

“They’ve become much more hostile, much more bitter, and much more aggressive in nature. It’s actually got to the stage where I’m beginning to feel that I want to stay in my house.”<\/p>\n

She added: “At the end of the day this is a piece of cloth. It can neither harm anyone or do anything to anyone or do anything to anybody. If you’re going to add all the things on to it and say this is a terrorist or whatever they now think we are, it is just ignorance. Absolute ignorance.”<\/p>\n

However, a 20-year-old woman who did not want to be named gave Newsbeat some background to her lack of trust of Muslims:<\/p>\n

“When you hear about terrorism, more often than not it is Muslims that have carried it out. I just feel they’re all out to do that, they’re all the same.<\/p>\n

“If we went to their country we can’t wear shorts and a crop top, yet they come here and cover themselves up. It’s almost like they’re forcing their religion on to us”, she said.<\/p>\n

Such comments will dismay members of government working groups, but they indicate a growing depth of feeling at odds with the historic welcome Britain has given to immigrant communities.<\/p>\n

However, groups like Huguenots and Jews fleeing religious persecution held similar religious and moral standards as the British, made attempts to assimilate and at the very least did not bring such an ‘in-your-face’ attitude as the recent wave of Muslims have done.<\/p>\n

The Muslim population is set to grow in the United Kingdom by further immigration and a degree of natural fecundity spurned by both the Christian and secularist sectors. \u00a0Muslims will be over-represented in both local and national government and will become more demanding.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, on present trends our culture will become more crass and brutal (as the website Brutal Britain shows<\/a><\/strong>) and both the freedom of the Christian faith and the rich Christian Heritage of Britain will be further eroded. \u00a0It is highly likely that the church will stay within its walls and forget its duty to stand for the truth of the Gospel in the public square as did the prophets of old.<\/p>\n

Given all that, it is a good job that Almighty God is in control, but has this country’s rebellion against his laws now outstripped our previous usefulness in spreading the Gospel? \u00a0Has our national spiritual bank account slipped too far into the red? \u00a0If so, there could be a rocky road ahead.<\/p>\n

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